Waleed Eid Al-Hanafy - Tripod

Waleed Eid Al-Hanafy
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Information
Dept. of Electronics & Commun. Eng.
Faculty of Electronic Engineering
Menoufia University
Menouf 32952, Egypt
Tel: +20 48 3661518
Fax: +20 48 3660716
waleed alhanafy@yahoo.com
http://waleedeid.tripod.com
Job Title Assistant Professor
Affiliation Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University
Marital Status Married with 3 children
Date of Birth December 1973
Place of Birth Elbagour, Menoufia, Egypt
Nationality Egypt
Research Interests
My research interests are mainly in the signal processing for communications in particular precoding and equalisation
methods of MIMO systems, adaptive power/bit loading approaches, Multi-User MIMO, OFDM systems,
cooperative communications, cognitive radio, and resource allocation of wireless communication systems.
Education & Qualifications 1
Institution Location Dates Award Certificate
EEE Department, Strathclyde University Glasgow, UK 2007 – 2010 PhD
EEE Department, Liverpool University Liverpool, UK 2006 – 2007 First-year PhD
Faculty of Electronic Engineering,
Menoufia University
Menouf, Egypt 1999 – 2002
MSc in Electronic Eng.
(Communications)
Faculty of Electronic Engineering,
Menoufia University
Menouf, Egypt 1998 – 1999 MSc Courses
Faculty of Electronic Engineering,
Menoufia University
Menouf, Egypt 1991 – 1996
BSc in Electronic Eng.
(Communications)
Work Experience
Teaching
Institution/Address Job Title Dates Brief Description
Faculty of Elec. Eng., Menoufia
University, Menouf, Egypt
Modern Sciences and Arts
University (MSA), Cairo, Egypt
EEE Dept., Strathclyde University,
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
EEE Dept., University of
Liverpool, England, UK
Faculty of Elec. Eng., Menoufia
University, Menouf, Egypt
Faculty of Elec. Eng., Menoufia
University, Menouf, Egypt
Assistant
Professor
Assistant
Professor
Teaching
Assistant
Teaching
Assistant
Assistant
Lecturer
Jan. 2011
– date
summer
2011
2007 – 2010
2006 – 2007
2002 – 2006
Demonstrator 1996 – 2002
Teaching UG students courses and
supervisory of postgraduate students
Teaching UG students courses in
electronic & electrical circuits
Teaching assistant for UG students in
CAD, Integrated Studies, and VHDL
Teaching assistant for UG students in
PSPICE
⋆ Teaching theoretical and
experimental courses for UG students
⋆ Teaching theoretical and
experimental courses for UG students
1 In the RAE 2008, EEE Dept. at Strathclyde University was placed 3rd in the UK and 1st in Scotland by a large margin
when considering both size and quality

⋆ UG courses include:
- Circuit Theory
- Principles of Electronics
- Electronics Engineering
- Fields and Waves
- Electronic & Electrical Circuits
- Network Planning
Academic Participation
- Acoustics
- Logical Design
- Communications Lab.
- Digital Communication Lab.
- Electronics and Control Lab.
- Microwave Lab.
- Electrical Drawing
- Engineering Drawing
- Digital Signal Processing
- Signals and Systems
- Computer Aided Design
- PSPICE
Member of IEEE and EURASIP Societies, TPC member of Mosharaka for Researches and Studies, and a
reviewer of many conferences and journals.
• PhD thesis title
Non-Linear Precoding and Equalisation for Broadband MIMO Channels
• MSc thesis title
Teletraffic Analysis of the Next-Generation Integrated Terrestrial/Satellite Mobile Radio Networks
• BSc project title
Multichannel Optical Fiber Communication System
• Supervision
Supervise a PhD student and Engineering final-year student projects on:
1- Stratospheric wireless communications 2- Mobile Communications
• Reviewing
Reviewer of some conferences and journals including: 17th EUSIPCO Conference, Mosharaka International
Conferences, MIC, Journal of Communication and Computer, JCC, and IEEE Transactions
on Vehicular Technology
• Conferences
Participate and attend some international conferences including:
– 19th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2011, Barcelona, Spain, Aug.-Sep.
2011, 18th EUSIPCO 2010, Aalborg, Denmark, August 2010, and 17th EUSIPCO 2009, Glasgow,
UK, August 2009 (organising & reviewing committee)
– 4th Microwave & Radar Week, MIKON 2010, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2010
– 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing,
CAMSAP 2009, Aruba, Dutch Antilles, December 2009
– 3rd Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Computers and Applications,
MIC-CCA 2009, Amman, Jordan, October 2009
– 42nd Asilomar Conference in Signal, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2008, CA, USA, October
2008
• Awards
– International Travel Grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, May 2010
– Best Paper Award at MIC-CCA Conference, October 2009
– Scholarship from Menoufia University and Ministry of Higher Education and State for Scientific
Research, Egypt to study PhD in the UK from 2006 to 2010
Training and Skills
• Training
– Developing local talent in technology, CISCO Systems, Inc., Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 2010
– Bio-Electronics, MEMs, Power Management and Next Gen. Wireless, The E-KTN@ Glasgow
University, UK, Jul. 2009

• Skills
– Writing and presenting research intensive course, Strathclyde University, UK, Jan. 2008
– Research skills workshop, Liverpool University, UK, Nov. 2006
– Languages: Arabic - mother tongue, English - fluent
– Programing: MATLAB, PC Tools: MS Office, Lyx, L ATEX
– Other soft skills: AutoCAD drawing, PSPICE, VHDL, Ansoft HFSS package
List of Publications
Book:
• Precoding of Broadband Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Systems: Non-Linear Approaches. VDM Verlag Dr.
Müller, Jan. 2011, available online at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Precoding-Broadband- Multiple-Input-
Multiple-Output-Systems/dp/3639324935
Journal:
• Waleed Al-Hanafy and Stephan Weiss, “Suboptimal Greedy Power Allocation Schemes for Discrete Bit
Loading,” submitted to IET Communications Journal, Jan. 2012
• N. A. Odhah, M. I. Dessouky, W. E. Al-Hanafy, and F. E. Abd El-Samie, “Low complexity Greedy
Power Allocation Algorithm for Proportional Resource Allocation in Multi-User OFDM Systems,” accepted
for publication in Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology (JTIT), Sep. 2012
• Waleed Al-Hanafy and Stephan Weiss, “Discrete Rate Maximisation Power Allocation with Enhanced
BER,” IET Communications, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 1019-1024, Jun. 2012
• N. A. Odhah, M. I. Dessouky, W. E. Al-Hanafy, and F. E. Abd El-Samie, “Low Complexity
Precoded Greedy Power Allocation Algorithms for OFDM Communication Systems,” Journal of Signal and
Information Processing (JSIP), vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 185-191, May 2012
• F. S. Al-Kamali, M. I. Dessouky, B. M. Sallam, F. Shawki, W. Al-Hanafy and F. E. Abd El-
Samie, “Joint Low-Complexity Equalization and Carrier Frequency Offsets Compensation Scheme for MIMO
SC-FDMA Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 869-873, March
2012
Conference:
• Najib A. Odhah, Moawad I. Dessouky, Waleed Al-Hanafy, and Fathi E. Abd El-Samie, “Per-
Spatial Stream Power Allocation Algorithms for Single-User MIMO-OFDM Wireless Communication
Systems,” 8th International Conference on INFOrmatics and Systems, INFOS2012, Cairo, Egypt, May 2012
• Najib A. Odhah, Moawad I. Dessouky, Waleed Al-Hanafy, and Fathi E. Abd El-Samie, “Greedy
Power Allocation Algorithm for Proportional Resource Allocation in Multi-User OFDM Systems,” 29th National
Radio Science Conference, NRSC 2012 , Cairo, Egypt, April 2012
• Waleed Al-Hanafy and Stephan Weiss, “An Adaptive Modulation Precoding Scheme for Mean BER
Minimisation of ISI MIMO Channels,” 19th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2011, Barcelona,
Spain, Aug.-Sep. 2011
• Najib A. Odhah, Moawad I. Dessouky, Waleed Al-Hanafy, and Fathi E. Abd El-Samie, “An
Improved Adaptive Transmission Technique for High Speed Communication Systems,” 6th International
Computer Engineering Conference, ICENCO 2010 , Cairo, Egypt, December 2010
• Najib A. Odhah, Moawad I. Dessouky, Waleed Al-Hanafy, and Fathi E. Abd El-Samie, “Low
Complexity Transmission Scheme for Multiple Input Multiple Output Communication Systems,” 1st International
Conference on Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, ECSE’10 , Cairo, Egypt, November
2010
• Waleed Al-Hanafy, Mohamed Nuri Hussin, and Stephan Weiss, “Incremental Rate Maximisation
Power Loading with BER Improvements,” 18th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2010,
Aalborg, Denmark, August 2010

• Waleed Al-Hanafy and Stephan Weiss, “Reduced Complexity Schemes to Greedy Power Allocation for
Multicarrier Systems,” 18th International Conference on Microwave, Radar and Wireless Communications,
MIKON 2010 , Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2010
• Waleed Al-Hanafy and Stephan Weiss, “Trade-Off Between Complexity and BER Performance of a
Polynomial SVD-Based Broadband MIMO Transceiver,” 27th National Radio Science Conference, NRSC
2010 , Menouf, Egypt, March 2010
• Waleed Al-Hanafy and Stephan Weiss, “Greedy Power Allocation for Multicarrier Systems with Reduced
Complexity,” 27th National Radio Science Conference, NRSC 2010 , Menouf, Egypt, March 2010
• Waleed Al-Hanafy and Stephan Weiss, “Comparison of Precoding Methods for Broadband MIMO Systems,”
3rd IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing,
CAMPSAP 2009 , Aruba, Dutch Antilles, December 2009
• Waleed Al-Hanafy and Stephan Weiss, “A New Low-Cost Discrete Bit Loading using Greedy Power
Allocation,” 2 3rd Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Computers and Applications,
MIC-CCA 2009 , Amman, Jordan, October 2009
• Waleed Al-Hanafy and Stephan Weiss, “Sum-Rate Maximisation Comparison using Incremental Approaches
with Different Constraints,” 3rd Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Computers
and Applications, MIC-CCA 2009 , Amman, Jordan, October 2009
• Stephan Weiss, Paul Yarr, Waleed Al-Hanafy, Andrew P. Millar, and Chi-Hieu Ta, “An Oversampled
Modulated Filter Bank Transmultiplexer With Precoding and Equalisation,”3rd Workshop on Power
Line Communications, Udine, Italy, October 2009
• Waleed Al-Hanafy and Stephan Weiss, “Efficient Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding Ordering using QR
Decomposition,” 17th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2009 , Glasgow, UK, August 2009
• Samir Bendoukha, Waleed Al-Hanafy, and Stephan Weiss, “A Concurrent Blind Receiver for STBC
over Doubly Dispersive Channels,” 17th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2009 , Glasgow,
UK, August 2009
• Waleed Al-Hanafy, Andrew P. Millar, Chi Hieu Ta, and Stephan Weiss, “Broadband SVD and
Non-Linear Precoding and Equalisation Applied to Broadband MIMO Channels,” 42nd Asilomar Conference
on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2008 , Pacific Grove, CA, USA, October 2008
• Sami El-Dolil, Mostafa Nofal, and Waleed Al-Hanafy, “An Integrated Space/Terrestrial Cellular
Architecture with Different Priority Schemes for Global Mobile Communications,” 55th IEEE Vehicular
Technology Conference VTC Spring 2002 , Birmingham, AL, USA, May 2002
References
Available on request
2 This paper won the “Best Paper Award” at the MIC-CCA 2009 Conference